FACING LITIGATION?

Reduce the time, cost and worry of responding to discovery and regulatory requests

Today’s heightened focus on litigation and regulatory enforcement has created new pressures on records managers, compliance officers and IT groups. For example, under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, each party involved in a lawsuit must provide a description of all records relevant to the stipulated facts, including electronic records. They must also be able to produce the information on short notice, even when terabytes of data is involved. Failure to comply can result in stiff fines and penalties.

Iron Mountain can help you enhance your litigation readiness by establishing well-managed Index and Access processes. With the right tools and processes in place, you can minimize the time, cost, and disruption of locating, reporting, and retrieving records for discovery and regulatory purposes.

Best practices: Litigation holds help prevent improper disposal

We can help you establish a system of litigation holds, which is an important best practice for records management. Litigation holds help ensure that once you receive notification of a pending investigation or audit, disposal of records potentially relevant to the claim is temporarily suspended, even if the retention schedule would otherwise permit destruction.

Best practices: A digital archive streamlines legal discovery

How records are archived also has a strong bearing on litigation readiness. Storing email and other electronic records on cumbersome backup tapes is inadequate for meeting time-sensitive discovery and regulatory requests. Iron Mountain can assist you in migrating electronic records and email to a digital archive that offers low-cost, long-term storage along with tools for easy organization, searching, discovery, and retention management.